Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Science Quotes, Should Have Quotes

The astronomers said, 'Give us matter and a little motion and we will construct the universe. It is not enough that we should have matter, we must also have a single impulse, one shove to launch the mass and generate the harmony of the centrifugal and centripetal forces.' ... There is no end to the consequences of the act. That famous aboriginal push propagates itself through all the balls of the system, and through every atom of every ball.

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It is true that genius takes its rise out of the mountains of rectitude; that all beauty and power which men covet are somehow born out of that Alpine district; that any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.

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Oxford is a little aristocracy in itself, numerous and dignified enough to rank with other estates in the realm; and where fame and secular promotion are to be had for study, and in a direction which has the unanimous respect of all cultivated nations.

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It all begins when the soul would have its way with you.

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O friend, never strike sail to a fear!

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Tis curious that we only believe as deeply as we live.

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a good reader makes a good book

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A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.

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There is no architect Can build as the Muse can; She is skilful to select Materials for her plan.

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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

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The visible heavens and earth sympathize with Jesus.

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Something is wanting to science until it has been humanised.

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Life is our dictionary.

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The whole of what we know is a system of compensation. Every defect in one manner is made up in another. Every suffering is rewarded; every sacrifice is made up; every debt is paid.

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He that loveth maketh his own the grandeur he loves

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But in every constitution some large degree of animal vigor is necessary as material foundation for the higher qualities of the art.

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Do what you know and perception is converted into character.

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It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day.

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Power resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state.

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I will not hide my tastes or aversions. If you are true, but not in the same truth with me, cleave to your companions; I will seek my own.

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